Archive for the ‘realtime’ Category

The modern web user expects to be informed of everything that happens within the application. You don’t want to be that one website that doesn’t even have the notifications dropdown found not just in all social media websites, but everywher...

Horizon is a scalable backend for cross-platform, JavaScript based mobile apps, especially those needing realtime functionality. It was built by the awesome people at RethinkDB and so uses RethinkDB as the default database. If you're not familiar with ...

A realtime app keeps a user up-to-date with the information they want to know, when they need it. A user doesn't need to constantly refresh a window to get the latest updates, a server behind the app will push updates to the app automatically. In this ...